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Space travels to Alpha Centauri, intercontinental nuclear trains and liquidation of ‘hostile imperialists’ – year 2017 presented in a Soviet filmstrip has nothing to do with today’s world.
On New Year’s Eve the filmstrip ‘In 2017’ which was made in 1960 appeared on the Internet. It is to be recalled that back at the time the Soviet Union expected the centenary of the October revolution to be celebrated in 2017.
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Moreover, they hoped that Soviet miners would get coal from under the ground in Antarctica and intercontinental nuclear trains would run between Asia and America.
They wanted nuclear power to become something ordinary and nickel and dime: in the picture, it is used in road construction (nuclear explosions cut off tops of hills which hamper laying of roads) and changes the flow of Siberian rivers.
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According to the authors, in 2017 space travel is the order of the day: photon rockets head for Alpha Centauri.
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The authors tell children about high-tech in 2017: alarm clocks from which a plastic hand sticks out and gives sleepyheads a flick on the nose; ‘home-cooked’ breakfasts made by kitchen machines.
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Only ‘hostile imperialists’, who shelter on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean, are barring progress. However, this problem is quickly solved: during prohibited weapons test, a burst destroys the island and causes ‘perturbations in the planet’s atmosphere’.
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The Communists also believed that in 2017 the force of nature would fully obey to Man. The filmstrips shows a flying weather control station: a person presses the button and the machine flies to allay a storm.
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The authors did not foresee the major inventions of the second half of the XXth century: according to the filmstrip, in ‘their’ 2017 information is distributed with the help of paper newspapers.
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